Best Of TV Awards Announcements and results

The 2015 Best Of TV Awards are well under way. the 6th annual BOTVA's are still closing out some polls for the opening round, and already have shattered the previous record for votes in the first round combined. With over 487,000 votes already cast at the time of writing this post, the 2015 BOTVA's are well on their way to breaking the current record of just under 575,000 votes in a year.

The Nomination rounds for Best Youth Actor, Actress and Talk Show Host took place a couple weeks ago. With both former winners in teh category this year, Isaac Hempstead-Wright "Game Of Thrones" as last years winner, and Robbie Kay "Heroes reborn" (won for work on "Once Upon A Time" in 2013 theres no shortage of contenders this year.

A category thats often popular with its candidates saw several qualify after tweeting to their fans & friends. The first round leader came from an unexpected place, a childrens show, as Sloane Morgan Siegel from "Gortimer Gibbons Life On Normal Street" led voting with 577 votes. Ahead of Tanner Flood from "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" at 400. David Mazouz from "Gotham" was 3rd with 119. Jared Gilmore "Once Upon A Time" at 92 was 4th, and Chandler Riggs from "The Walking Dead" rounded out the top 5 at 88.

Here are the complete results (BOLD nominees have qualified for the Semi-Finals)

The Best Youth Actress Category was the most bizarre category we have ever had. Not once, or twice, but on three different occasions we checked in on voting results to find someone had gone thru considerable effort to try & get the majority of the field in a tie. So because of their efforts, the results are muuuch tighter than they probably would have been otherwise, and a couple of "probable" semi-finalists find themselves on the outside looking in because lesser known candidates were propped up by this odd voting pattern.

One thing that was for certain though, Camren Bicondova from "Gotham" led from start to end with 1457 votes. Back in 2nd was Danika Yarosh from "Heroes reborn" with 221, narrowly beating out a write in vote candidate Chandler Kinney "Gortimer Gibbons Life On Normal Street" at 218. In 4th is the 2014 winner Maisie Williams "Game Of thrones" at 203. Clare Foley of "Gotham" rounds out the top 5 at 200.

Here are the full results. (BOLD nominees have qualified for the Semi-Finals)

The Best Talk Show Host Category has been dominated by Ellen Degeneres since its inception. This year looks no different as the queen of daytime talk had a notable lead over her field of night time competitors.

Here are the full results. (BOLD nominees have qualified for the Semi-Finals)

The second round of the 2015 Best Of TV Awards will start in late November or early December. As always, that round will be 1 vote per person, so many of the results seen in the opening round might mean nothing in a couple weeks.

Full results, including valid write in candidates with more than 1 vote are listed below in the images.

Voting, and a complete list of nominees in all categories can be found HERE